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Boston Marathon Bombing

Kevan Fagan is co-authoring a book called Juror 83 - The Tsarnaev Trial: 34 Days That Changed Me

He was just a year older than the Boston Marathon bomber when he sentenced him to death

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‘Juror 83’ saw the Boston marathon bomber as ‘a kid who was existentially lost’

Survivor Rebekah Gregory arrives before the formal sentencing of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts June 24, 2015.

Boston Marathon bomber apologizes at sentencing hearing

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Suspected shooter Dylann Roof sits in a police vehicle in Shelby, North Carolina, June 18, 2015. Roof, a 21-year-old with a criminal record, is accused of killing nine people at a Bible-study meeting in a historic African-American church in Charleston, So

Should we call Dylann Roof a terrorist?

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The Tripathi family

New documentary explores how social media delayed the search for and slandered Sunil Tripathi

Technology
President Barack Obama talks to Cardinal Sean O'Malley during an interfaith memorial service for Boston Marathon bombing victims at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross on April 18, 2013.

Does God want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to get the death penalty?

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A journalist tracks what led up to the Boston bombing and reflects on her own immigrant life

Conflict

Masha Gessen talks about reporting from Dagestan to Boston, following the Tsarnaev family, and how their immigrant story departs from her own.

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Daniel Norris throws against the Tampa Bay Rays in the fourth inning at the Rogers Centre.

Canadian sports join in the post-Boston Marathon security buildup

Sports

It’s hard to be a Toronto Blue Jays fan, and now it’s even harder just to get in the stadium to watch a game. In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Major League Baseball is directing all of its teams, including Toronto, to tighten security at entrances.

Patimat Suleimanova, aunt of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, holds a photo from the family archive at her house in Makhachkala.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s worldview was shaped by a jarring, unsettled childhood

Books

In her new book The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, Masha Gessen says no single event explains the brothers’ transition. But she looks for clues in Tamerlan’s unstable early years.

Aloke Chakravarty, a prosecutor, addressed jurors during closing arguments in the Boston Marathon bombings trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, second from right, at the federal courthouse in Boston on Monday.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty on all charges in Boston Marathon bombing

Justice

A jury has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of plotting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the Boston Marathon bombings. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when the bombs exploded at the finish line in April 2013. The jury will now decide whether Tsarnaev receives a life sentence or the death penalty.

A blood-stained message prosecutors say Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote on the inside of a boat. The undated photo was presented as evidence to jurors at Tsarnaev's trial in Boston.

The man who escaped the Tsarnaev brothers takes the stand in Boston

Justice

Jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial heard testimony on Friday from Dun Meng, who made a dramatic escape after his car was hijacked by bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.